Recently, thirty Muslims were fired from the Dell facilities in Nashville, Tennessee. The problem was that they claimed a need to stop working every day and pray at the setting of the sun, while their employer claimed that this was an undue burden on their production schedules. Join with me now in an atheistic examination of this event.
In the United States (in theory, at least) there is no state-sanctioned religion. All religions are supposed to be treated equally in the eyes of the law. Any privilage granted to one religion must be granted to all religions. What would happen if the law said that Dell is not allowed to fire people who refuse to work at sunset? Then the law would also have to prevent Dell from firing people who refuse to work at other times, or on other days - or on any day, or maybe even every day as long as a religion could be found that says working is forbidden. And since all religions are made up anyway, one could always make up the First Temple of Edward G. Robbinson and say "work is for saps" and never work - yet never get fired.
Dell is within their rights to fire people who do not work. That, or (as usual) anyone can do anything and get away with it as long as they say an invisible monster that lives in the sky told them to do it.
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